Chuck Ross

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Chuck Ross is the managing director of TVWeek.com. He's been involved in the TV business ever since he sold cable TV subscriptions in Santa Monica, Calif., door-to-door in the mid-to-late 1970s. He's had regular gigs reporting and/or editing about TV and advertising for Cablevision magazine,The Hollywood Reporter, the San Francisco Chronicle, Inside Media and Advertising Age. He first joined the predecessor to TVWeek, Electronic Media, in 2000.

Warner Bros. Talking up 2011 Syndicated Talk Show Featuring Dr. Drew

Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution will be meeting with television stations to start selling a new syndicated talk show with Dr. Drew Pinsky for a fall 2011 debut, reports TVNewsCheck.com. Warner Bros. declined to comment. The new show is thought…

Stephen Hawking Controversy: In New Book He Says Why God Did Not Create the Universe. Hmmm. Dunno About That. But I Can Explain Why God is My Co-Pilot. (Fasten Your Seat Belt: This is Going To Be Your Most Unexpected, Wild Read of the Day)

Last Friday, Sept. 3, 2010, the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from the new book, “The Grand Design” by well-known British physicist Stephen Hawking and a colleague of his, physicist Leonard Mlodinow. The excerpt was titled, “Why God Did…

John Kluge, Founder of Metromedia TV Station Empire, Dies at 95

John Kluge, the founder of television company Metromedia, died on Sept. 7 at his home in Albemarle County, Virginia, reports Bloomberg News. He was 95. Kluge’s Metromedia became the largest independent television business in the U.S. before he sold the…

MTV Orders ‘Jersey Shore’ Specials; Snooki Ordered to Pay Fine, Perform Community Service for Beach Incident

MTV has ordered a pair of "Jersey Shore" specials to air after the show’s second season ends on Oct. 21, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The first special will be a cast reunion show to air Oct. 28, while the second…

Wow: Justin Bieber Accounts for About 3% of All Activity on Twitter

"The social networking site has previously claimed that Bieber, a singer who shot to fame on YouTube, is mentioned 60 times a second on its website, which publishes 65 million tweets every day," reports Telegraph.com. According to the report, "The…

FX’s ‘Sons of Anarchy’ Debuts Slightly Down from Last Season’s Debut; A&E’s ‘Hoarders’ Breaks Records

FX’s "Sons of Anarchy" debuted its third season with ratings that were down 4% in total viewers from its second season premiere, reports Nellie Andreeva at Deadline.com. Meanwhile, A&E’s unscripted program "Hoarders" broke records for the network on Labor Day…

‘Jersey Shore’ Stars Scrambling to Register Trademarks–And One of Them Succeeds (Not Snooki)

The stars of MTV’s "Jersey Shore" are apparently finding it more difficult than expected to register their famous nicknames as trademarks with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, The Washington Post reports. But one of the stars, Mike Sorrentino, the…